Object Of Linguistic Analysis Research Articles

Речеви стратегии в кандидатпрезидентските дебати

The article is dedicated to the presidential candidate debate between the current President Rumen Radev and Prof. Anastas Gerdzhikov. The research traces whether their vocabulary adheres to the official discourse, how dynamic it is and whether it answers to the requirements of high speech etiquette. On the other hand, it examines certain phonetic features, such as tempo, intonation, logical stress, repetitions, etc. The study directly observes at what point the debaters abandon the formal high speech etiquette and lose ground in the argument. The object of linguistic analysis is also the length of sentences, the number of words used, and self-talk. Finally, the question of what is the goal of this is also raised: whether they eloquently persuade the electorate and draw approval and interest upon themselves, or whether they achieve the opposite - the disapproval and disaffection of the audience.

Репрезентация экспертного знания в дискурсивных практиках судьи

A jury trial involves both legal professionals and laymen without legal training and knowledge. This heterogeneity of participants indicates the asymmetric relationships in the courtroom. Since jurors play a crucial role in the trial, it is extremely important for them not to experience difficulties in understanding and interpreting the discursive practices of lawyers. The paper studies the discursive strategies and linguistic means of expert knowledge representation in the institutional genre of “judicial instructions.” Although regularly used to overcome knowledge asymmetry in the process of communication between professional lawyers and jurors, explanatory strategies in the Russian-language judicial instructions have not previously been the object of linguistic analysis. The hypothesis has been put forward stating that explanatory strategies help to overcome difficulties in understanding and interpreting legal texts by non-professional participants. The analysis of the corpus has shown that Russian judges use the following explanatory strategies to overcome cognitive and communicative problems amid the knowledge asymmetry: 1) definition, i.e., explication of the meaning of a term by indicating its distinctive features; 2) description, i.e., a narrative transfer of expert knowledge by establishing its connection with everyday knowledge; 3) exemplification, i.e., an appeal to the everyday experience by correlating legal categories with specific objects or events of everyday life; 4) metaphorization, i.e., interaction between two objects or phenomena based on their subject, feature, or functional similarities resulting in legal categories approaching the everyday experience; 5) synonymization, i.e., replacement of abstract legal concepts with everyday lexical units that have similar meanings.

Interaction of the concepts language – war as an object of linguistic analysis: results and new approaches

Interaction of the concepts language – war as an object of linguistic analysis: results and new approaches

ВАЛЛИЙСКИЕ ТОПОНИМЫ КАК ОТРАЖЕНИЕ ЛИНГВИСТИЧЕСКОГО И ЭТНОКУЛЬТУРНОГО НАСЛЕДИЯ КЕЛЬТОВ НА ТЕРРИТОРИИ УЭЛЬСА

Statement of the problem. The Celtic languages are formed as one of the primary groups within the Indo-European language family. The 6th – 7th centuries saw the exodus of the Celts, as well as the Celtic language by the Germanic tribes and their languages from the territory of Britain pushed. Along with that we had our special interest riveted on linguistic artifacts which support the assumption about some Celtic tribes to staying within certain territories, particularly, within the territory of Wales, where during historical conquests, a considerable number of the Celtic tribes were pushed back to avoid the fate of being enslaved by the Anglo-Saxons. The object of linguistic analysis was the contemporary toponyms of Wales, including the linguistic and ethnic-cultural legacy of the Celts within the diachrony. The purpose of the article is to reveal and show the Celtic substrate in contemporary Welsh oikonymy within the territory of Wales as a proof of the preservation of the ancient lingo-social legacy of the Celts. The research methodology includes method of searching for particular toponymical units, which include the Celtic substrate, inductive method in finding a great number of oikonyms for creation of categorical classification according to the meaning of the name, comparative historical method, and the method of etymological analysis. Research results. The preservation of ancient ethnic-cultural legacy of the Celts and its distinctive interpretation are needed for understanding the movement of the English language expansion on a certain territory during the ancient period and immersion into the lingo-cultural, lingo-cognitive image of the world reflected in oikonyms. As a result of exploring the Celtic toponymic layer, it was found out that the north-western part of Wales was less influenced by the Anglo-Saxon invaders in diachrony and the local population of Celtic origin were able to preserve their unique ethnic-cultural identity. The conclusion. All names of places in Wales, especially the ones that are located in the north-western part remain unchanged from ancient times. Despite the attempts to push out the Celtic language and pressure on the part of the Anglo-Saxon invaders the expansion of the English language was halted by the courageous actions of the ancestors of the contemporary Welsh people. Today, this is reflected in the prevailing Celtic substrate among genuine Wales’ toponyms.

THEONYM GOD AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PAGAN SCRIPT (ON THE MATERIAL OF PROSE TEXTS OF THE UKRAINIAN WRITER OF THE XX CENTURY DOKIIA HUMENNA)

The article deals with the topical problem of linguistic objectification of the theonym god in the works of the Ukrainian writer of the twentieth century Dokiia Humenna who is a bright representative of the cultural and emigration space, whose name has been kept secret for more than half a century and is only now returning to the reader. The aim of the study was to find out the specifics of its linguization in the Ukrainian artistic language. For the first time, the theonym god became the object of linguistic analysis from the standpoint of modern onomastics, which allowed us to establish the peculiarities of its implementation in the individual mental lexicon. The method of contextual-interpretive and descriptive analysis was used as the main in the article. The material was micro-novels from D. Humenna's book "Walk through the alleys of millennia", in which the writer, based on anthropological, ethnographic, linguistic and other information, clarifies the national and cultural nature of the concept of god, represented by the appropriate name, primarily pagan script. It is established that, trying to penetrate into the depths of the people's worldview, D. Humenna attached great importance to the problem of spirituality, in which an important place was occupied by understanding god, revealing the linguistic and cultural nature of his main verbalizer, which led to other linguistic characteristics of relevant theonym (use in the plural form, the presence of generic correlates, attachment to a certain area of life) and allowed to interpret the concept nominated by it as central at different stages of pagan development. The value of the analysis lies in the disclosure of little-studied linguistic problems associated with the understanding of sacred terminology and the ability to fill certain gaps in the history of Ukrainian literature. As for perspectives, we see them in the further study of religious vocabulary, primarily in individual mental lexicons.

Study of Stylistic Functions of Pronoun in School (Based on the Material of the «Solntse Mertvyh» by I.S. Shmelev)

Works by I.S. Shmelev due to the large educational and aesthetic potential inherent in them, can be widely used in the educational process.Some forms of plural pronouns are sometimes used in the «Solntse Mertvyh» to refer to those who for some reason do not follow or can not be called their own name.According to FGOS pronouns, in view of the high degree of repeatability of their load this text, can be proposed as an object of linguistic analysis in school.

COMMUNICATIVE INFLUENCE IN ENGLISH IDEATION DISCOURSE: RESPONSIVE STRATEGIES (BASED ON TED INTERNET PLATFORM)

The article focuses on identification and description of the responsive strategies realized by the subjects of English ideation discourse. The term English ideation discourse encompasses a process and result of the communicants’ interaction in the social-cultural context of a public speech. The subjects of such a discourse are the ideator and the recipient(-s) who take part in the cognitive-communicative activity in order to accept and apply the idea that is the object of this interaction. The idea refers to a mental structure translated into verbal and non-verbal means of communication. The ideator’s global socially relevant communicative aim is to exert communicative influence on the recipients, so that they will put the idea into social action. This aim is achieved through the initial communicative strategies of informing, persuading and instructing that govern the sub-strategies: informative, informative-persuasive, persuasive, persuasive-instructive, and instructive. Sub-strategies are aimed at different spheres of the recipients’ consciousness – rational reasoning (informative, informative-persuasive), emotions (persuasive), volition (instructive) or at the subconsciousness (persuasive-instructive). Responsive communicative actions of the recipients are divided into instant (verbal: exclamations, short answers; non-verbal: laughter, applause, gestures) and delayed (verbal: rating an ideation speech by choosing three out of fourteen available adjectives of positive / negative evaluation; non-verbal: general and average monthly number of views of the video recording of an ideation speech). The study is pioneering a systematic cognitive-communicative methodology which reveals constitutive features of a new object of linguistic analysis – English ideation discourse – and provides the tool of inferential analysis to identify and describe rational, emotional, volitional communicative influence with relevant to this influence responsive strategies that are exerted by the subjects of the ideation discourse and are manifested in their verbal and non-verbal actions.

Political discourse as object of linguistic analysis

The urgency of the work is due to the fact that at the present stage of development political linguistics is considered one of the most rapidly developing and most promising areas of linguistics. The name of this direction indicates the subject of his research - political linguistics is engaged in the study of “political communication”, that is, speech activity that is oriented to the propagation of certain ideas, emotional impact and motivation of citizens to political actions, to accept and substantiate political and social decisions in the conditions of many points of view in society, for the development of public consent. The goal of political linguistics is to study the various relationships between the political state of society, the subjects of political activity, communication, thinking and language. That is why the main task of political linguistics is to study the relationship between subjects of political activity, communication, thinking, language and the political state of society. In modern linguistics, one of the most developing areas is political linguistics. This position can be defined as evidence of the extensive involvement of the society in political processes and, as a result, the increased interest of science in communication in the political sphere. The following research methods are used in this article: stylistic, syntactic and lexical-semantic analysis of fragments of texts; semiotic analysis; elements of the component analysis of lexical units; elements of content analysis; descriptive method and its main components (observation, interpretation, generalization). Foreign and domestic researchers turned to the study of various aspects of the pre-election discourse. In particular, the studies of Bazylev VN, Bokmelder DA, Budaeva EV, Vodak R., Repina EA, Chudinova AP are devoted to the political discourse. Bakumova EV, Baranova AN, Sineoki NA, Sheigala EI and other scientists. The work of such scientists as Borbotko VG, Karasik VI, Makarov ML, Cherniavskaya VE devoted to the study of cognitive linguistics, theory and history of discourse development in science. and others.

RESEARCHING WRITTEN MONUMENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF CHANGING SCIENTIFIC PARADIGMS

The scientific paradigm of the 21st century has acquired anthropocentric drift. In modern linguistic studies, the anthropocentric approach also occupies a dominant position: the researcher’s attention is refocused from objects of cognition (lingual units of different levels) to the subject; thus, linguists analyze an individual in language and language in an individual. The article presents an attempt to define the range of problems of modern linguistic diachronic researches about lingual personality, lingual consciousness, the language of the epoch. The preconditions of involving the concept of "lingual personality" in the research arsenal of historical linguistics are analyzed. It has been found out that the text becomes a key material for studies of historical lingual personology. The language of ancient texts is studied as the expression and result of creativity of lingual personality. Through the ancient texts of the preaching genre, the object of linguistic analysis in studies, which are analyzed in article, gradually "visualized" church-religious picture of the world as an element of the lingual picture of the world, there is an opportunity to analyze changes in it, to study the specificity of religious (confessional) linguistic personality, from religious communication at that time. It is defined that the prospective research direction is the lexicographic direction of lingual personology; the possibilities of studying the language of the epoch based on texts are analyzed. Key words: anthropocentric linguistic, lingual personology, lingual personality, lingual consciousness, the language of the epoch, written monuments.

Термин как феномен языка и культуры (к истории слов и понятий)

The article deals with the term as an object of the linguistic analysis. The author analyses the problem of the polysemy in the term including social and cultural connotations. The term is analyzed in the area of the formation of the scientific knowledge. The importance of the term in the elaboration of the academic discourse is revealed. The term as an object of linguistic analysis is correlated with the philosophical concept of the “term” that passed along the specific way of the development, especially in the Middle Ages, when the concept was in the heart of polemics between nominalism and realism.

Notes on Linguistics and Literature

literature. They have not met with much success, chiefly, I think, because they have failed to distinguish clearly between the object of literary criticism and the object of linguistic analysis, between the structure of language and the structure of literature. It will be apparent from these remarks that I assume such a distinction. I take it to be self-evident, though it is a difficult distinction to define precisely. One reason for this is that literature is made of language. From one point of view, therefore, a work of literature may be regarded as a piece of language. That, I believe, is the (proper) viewpoint of linguistics; but as soon as one so regards a literary work, it ceases to be a literary work and becomes a piece of language merely. That, in brief, is why linguistic analysis is not, and cannot be, literary criticism.1 M. A. K. Halliday's 1964 stylistic study of Yeats' Leda and the Swan and a passage from Morte D'Arthur provides an illustration of the limitations of